[sword-devel] Re: Christian Debian distro talk / Report

[fournilgilles at free.fr]

my favorite one is so far Daga's




> Hi all!
>
> We're now having some logos done...
> I gathered them on the wiki :
> http://ichthiux.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=IchthuxLogo
>
> I modified (although not entirely yet) the main page of the wiki (
> http://ichthiux.free.fr/wikini/wakka.php?wiki=Main ) so as to take in
> account the merging of the projects as a new one.
>
> God bless
>
> Raphaël
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2005 5:15 PM, Nigel Chapman <nigel at chapman.id.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We're obviously going to need a logo for this ICHTHUX thing (which I
> > humbly suggest is the best title of those thus far mooted, in regard to
> > fishiness, for instant recognition amongst Christians, and
> > web-uniqueness, for domain name availability and search engine results).
> >
> > Here are my suggestions for what the logo needs to achieve:
> >
> > 1. It has to focus on the 'fish'; that's what signals to Christians the
> > nature of the project.
> >
> > 2. But it has to avoid the 'standard', horizontal, 2 dimensional, rather
> > static, Christian fish of bumper-sticker fame -- rather it needs to
> > communicate something living and vibrant.
> >
> > 3. In spite of the nice "HTH" in the centre of the word, it's more
> > important to reinforce the fish meme than to try and capitalize on the
> > possible 'cross' associations.  They look rigidly geometric rather than
> > organic, in any case, which is bad.
> >
> > I've attached a photo of a sketch of one possible idea. I'm not going to
> > explain it at this point, since if logos need to be explained, then
> > they've already failed.
> >
> > Comments are welcome. If it gains mindshare I'll turn it into vector
> > art, colorize it, make GIFs and JPEGs, etc.
> >
> > I'm very excited about this project; my own work in the area (web based
> > Bible search tools) would not have been possible without the Sword
> > library and its Diatheke interface. I wasn't awake at 4am Sydney time
> > for the start of our talk, but I expect to be catching up with more of
> > you next time around.
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Nigel Chapman
> >
> > --
> >
> > Nigel Chapman | Email,MSN: nigel at chapman.id.au
> > p a n t a + s u n e r g e i + e i s + a g a t h o n
> >
> >
> >
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